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>> sandra: would begin with the senate unanimously requiring the biden administration declassify the origin of covid-19 as calls from transparency grow by the hour. hello. i'm sandra smith here in new york and this is "america reports." >> john: it's great to see you here on friday eve and i'm john roberts in washington. the bill comes as the white house says it has not ruled out any theories on the covid-19 origin but refuses to say whether china would be punished if investigators find evidence of a cover-up. this adds president biden it is asking intelligence agencies to redouble their efforts. speak to the american people deserve to know what role the american china played in this.

>> yes, we need to declassify but the more i look into it, this was squashed by ecohealth alliance, nih, especially in ho and china itself. the american public deserves it with all of the turmoil that is been caused by at. >> sandra: we will seek answers in just a moment and will be speaking to david asher, a former u.s. official who went to a task force on the origins of the virus for then secretary of state mike pompeo. we look forward to that. >> john: that he was shut down in the spring by the biden administration. but first, team coverage but we begin with peter doocy who is live on the north on. >> good afternoon. president biden hears congress loud and clear. they voted for the intel revealing the origins of covid-19 be public when it's ready. the president said he is going

to do just that unless there is something in there he doesn't know about yet. >> are you going to release a 90 day review on the origins of the coronavirus? >> if i had that come i would release a 90 day review. >> president biden insisted he would get tough with china about its origins. >> i would be on the phone with china making it clear that we are going to need to be in your country and you have to be open, you have to be clear, we have to know what's going on. >> president biden brags that he goes way back with president xi but it's not clear if they ever had that chat. >> i'm not going to go into details of private conversations that the president may have had with president xi. >> if they did talk about getting to the bottom of chinese evidence, the chinese did not listen because the entire reason

that president biden is going forward with a u.s. intel committee led with u.s. investigations is because china has come out and said they are done cooperating with international investigations about that. >> john: nothing to see here according to the chinese. peter doocy live at the white house. thank you. >> sandra: let's bring in former white house writer and fox news contributor. thank you for joining us, mark. a lot to get to hear. a general saying my opinion has not changed because i have not seen different evidence. what i said a year ago, it's still true today. it's inconclusive, we don't know. will there ever be a smoking gun found here? >> there's probably not gonna be a smoking gun because china has buried the smoking gun and they have no interest on cooperating with us on an investigation

because as long as the possibility exists that it was a natural emergence, than the coronavirus was an act of god which means they are not responsible for being able to handle an act of god. but if a chinese state avenue, glad because of lax security, in active state and the chinese government is responsible for all the deaths and economic destruction it has caused. >> sandra: why is it a partisan issue to demand answers for the american public and that we have very least learn more? >> the reason it is a partisan issue is because last year -- any time anyone raised the possibility that china was response will for the virus, it was seen as a distraction from the effort to blame donald trump for the pandemic. he is a guy that was responsible for all the deaths in this

country so if you blame china, eight you're distracted that effort. just think about what we know. we don't have the evidence. it happened in wuhan at china's number one lab for studying back coronavirus. they have a lax security practices. we know they were conducting function experiences in which they were creating covid to infect human cells and doing it at bio two rather than bio security level four which is where you would have people wearing space suits in a lab. we know that viruses of escape from chinese lab before. the sars virus escape from beijing and we know that three lab workers of the wuhan lab were hospitalized with covert like symptoms in september of 2019 back on the pandemic was

starting. it you don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. it's pretty clear that this came from a chinese lab. >> sandra: 90 days is what joe biden wants for the intelligence community to report back on what they find and as far as what we know, "the new york post" cover this morning. what we are learning from exclusive reporting from "the new york post," hunter biden's shady business partners and dad revealed. what are we learning from this latest bombshell report on the report that the vice president joe biden had with hunter's business partners? >> we have at it in own words. we talked about how the media refused to cover the lab leak hypothesis because it would've helped donald trump and possibly

hurt joe biden in the election. the same is true for this story. the story was suppressed and ignored by the media, suppressed by social media, because it would have hurt joe biden's chance for election. it is the same dynamic going on in the lab leak story in the hunter biden story. if his name is hunter trunk, it would have been from page story all the way to election day. >> sandra: it's only on "the new york post" cover this morning. when it comes to that laptop, we are taken through so many events of the campaign cycle. it you've been seeing it today on this channel, peter doocy press in joe biden on every conversation he ever had with his son about overseas business dealings. it comes back to that laptop and we saw hunter biden in that interview saying, "it could be my laptop." what we are learning today is depending on that fact with her or not it was. >> here's the funny thing. we spent the last year denying

that china was response will for the lab leak but we also spent the last fall saying that russia was responsible for disinformation on hunter biden's laptop which turned out to not be true. it turned out to be hunter biden's laptop. we were unwilling to blame china for political purposes and we were willing to blame russia with no evidence for political purposes as well. it always favors the biden team. >> sandra: it is been great to see you and happy memorial day weekend to you. >> thanks, same to you. >> sandra: we are going to dig into both of them story start the couple of hours but a lot to take in both on the overseas business dealing, what joe biden knew, when he knew it, what kind of encounters he had with those business associates. to the origins of the virus in the pressing for answers, republicans demanding more and nellis investigation will play out further. >> john: it's interesting to see that the biden white house took action after the

stonewalling from china at that w.h.o. meeting where they basically said we are done with our investigation and you can go look at other countries but we are done. we will see what this turns up but a lot of people think that the evidence is already out there and you just have to put it together. we will be talking to david asher coming up in our next segment here. he was leading that state department task force and he has a lot to say. the ninth victim now confirmed dead after yesterday's mass shooting at a rail yard in san jose, california. we hear from the ex-wife of a suspected gunman who talked about killing his coworkers. reporting live from san jose forest today, a lot to unravel in this latest tragedy. >> you're exactly right, john. but there is indication that the gunman in yesterday's massacre had harbored a grudge for years. 57-year-old samuel cassidy had worked for the transportation authority since 2012 and according to his ex-wife, he

often resented his job assignments and more than a decade ago talked about wanting to kill his coworkers. she said she didn't believe him. it neighbor said that he had a bad temper but it's not clear what set him off yesterday's shift change just after 6:30 a.m. police on multiple victims and several buildings including the shooter who turned the gun on himself as law enforcement rushed in. that with the bomb squad found explosive materials at cassidy's house which went up in flames about one hour after he left here armed with multiple semi emetic handguns and loaded magazines. we are talking about acts of heroism talking about one employee pushing others into a room before he was shot to death. victims range from 29-63. a vigil for the victims as

planned for tonight at the san jose city hall. >> john: a real tragedy there for these families. thank you. >> sandra: texas governor greg abbott said to give an update on reporters for his plans to secure the border and present stomach prevent drug smuggling. live in fort worth, texas, we will give you headlines from that as they come in. meanwhile, the governor certainly has his work about for him as at fox news reporting and video shows trooper gunboats patrolling the rio grande river. these pictures tell the story. fox cameras are when rolling migrants coming into the u.s. and clearly making a run for it. taking down ten convicted sex offenders when they cross illegally over seven. ending monday. >> john: dhs secretary continue saying that the border

is closed but it doesn't look like it is. we are looking at closing organized to make arguments of the matter try very of mollie tibbetts. humming up next. >> sandra: a interview with the former investigator in the origins of covert pandemic. he will be here to tell us what he knows and if china is engaging in a cover-up. >> this affected the whole globe. why don't you talk to those doctors that have been missing since they originally announced this was going and in china? why don't you give us that level of transparency because that's where the real answers lie newday100 va cash out loan.ute it lets you borrow 100 percent of your home's value. you can take out $50,000 or more. use it to improve your home, get the kitchen you've always dreamed of, or have the security of cash in the bank. use your va home loan benefit at newday to get the financial security you and your family deserve.

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moments away from an independent contractor who is leading the trump administration's investigation into the origin of the covid-19 pandemic. but first, and atlantean city council man who voted to defund the police getting his car stolen and broad taillight. councilman antonio brown is running for mayor. a group of kids stole his car yesterday during ribbon-cutting ceremony. >> one kid was in the driver's seat and attempted to open the door i had been engaged in trying to get in the car and the other kids were trying to figure out to get in the car or get out of the car. he hit the gas and then let go and the other kid tried to drag me in the car for half a block. >> john: police are investigating and brown says he does not plan on filing charges. essentially what he's done is he

has told the kids there's no consequence to what you have done and what happened to him is exactly what happened to someone else here in washington, d.c., which ended in the horrific death of that man. >> sandra: no lessons learned there. jury deliberation, by the way, beginning at any moment. the man being accused of killing twit-year-old university of iowa student mollie tibbetts. cristhian bahena rivera given closing arguments today and matt, i remind everyone that adds you report on the story, you took us all the way through this tragic story back when mollie tibbetts went missing. >> we were on the ground and now mollie tibbetts deaths, the jury

said that the two masked men were a figment of rivero's imagination and instead he stabbed her nine to ten times. his defense argued that the prosecution had limited access to homeland security and did not prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. they did not provide a weapon. but apparently he confessed and said he became angry and hit her body. blood was found in his trunk. there will be the chance to give her a bottle and then we will expect this case to go to the jury today. we could have a verdict today. >> sandra: we will be watching this closely.

at matt finn live on the ground there. bring us any breaking news as you get it. >> john: back now to our top story. the growing calls for transparency in the investigation at the origins of the covid-19 pandemic. david asher joins us now. he is a former state department official who led a probe into the pandemic under former secretary of state mike pompeo. good to see you. just as at this up for the folks at home, this is the investigation that we were reporting on yesterday that was shut down in the spring by the biden administration. you left that in investigation in january or so. what was at investigation finding? >> we were finding that despite the claims are scientific community including the national institute the national institute of how the and dr. fauci denying organization, there was no evidence that supported a

natural zoo one attic evolution or source of covid-19. i came into an investigation doing a compliant support and related to the bio weapon treaty and we said, "let's look at this and up both sources of evidence. let's see if it came out of nature or did it come out of a lab? "the data disproportionately stacked up as we investigated that was coming out of a lab or some supernatural source. >> john: at that point in time, the person was overseeing this, chris ford, you're saying he didn't want to entertain this idea? question marks peacoat no. he seemed disinterested. he said how do we know where it came out of and what lab? very rarely in my life of

government have i encountered anyone who is more of a negative and less of a bureaucrat the nao that individual. i very rarely say i encountered disgraceful behavior and government but i did in this occasion. >> john: you say that you are looking into compliance in terms of weapons of mass destruction arms control. it was there a military component to this? >> of course. we were trying to assess the entire biological weapons program of china and i have a background in biotech investigation. i came back that the contractors and regular government that hide additional capacity more or less. i know a lot about synthetic biology and i rapidly zeroed in on the wuhan institute of

virology because that was the center of our epicenter of biology in the people's republic of china. they were up to some very hairy stuff. >> john: of what you believe to the intelligence that your tax force gathered that the chinese were doing and return to regards to coronavirus. dumb? >> as member's of the biological weapons convention, they were engaged in coronavirus research and then in 2016 and they stop declaring that and this is for bio defense purposes. why did they stop declaring it? as we unveiled it and i in our declassified statement, with the

biological weapons obviously was present. >> john: dr. fauci has maintained from the nih that american money was not used take fund gain of function research at wuhan. you suggested that they were involved in research there at that laboratory. did you find anything to connect the dots between nih funding and what was going on at the lab? >> i wasn't involved in researching the u.s. government's involvement in research but looking at the shiny side of this, the chinese most certainly felt that nih was supporting this. the coronavirus factors were radically unnatural and they were not similar to anything

that occurred naturally in evolution. in fact, i had biased tacticians calculate the odds and it was one in 13 million. they then revise it to one and 13 billion. to say this came out of a zoo one attic situation is ridiculous. >> john: very quickly because i have a few seconds here, when all is said and done, what you believe this intelligence committee will find and conclude? >> i have confidence in the intelligence committee at this time. i think they finally got their heads around this and i think they will find a lot. whether they will see much as a different matter. we made a big effort under secretary pompeo's direction to declassify information. i hope that congress bipartisan lay demands of this administration does the same. >> john: we will see where this goes. david asher, good to see you

again. it's in a while. >> sandra: president biden set to give a speech as he prepares to unveil his big budget proposal but what does this mean for you and your families bottle mine? >> john: the marine who is facing down an expedition to spain make a passionate plea to the court on his case. >> the court has recognized that there is a danger to my life and those around me if i leave the country.

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>> john: a new study is now suggesting that people who are cover from mild coronavirus disease are unlikely to have repeated bouts of illness. researchers from the washington university school of medicine

finding evidence of long-lasting immunity in those who previously had mild cases. it's unknown whether these findings hold true in more severe cases. experts say that everyone should still get vaccinated for added protection regardless whether they had fibrous. rand paul has maintained that he doesn't need to be vaccinated because he had the coronavirus. he's right on that front it would seem but their recommend and think that people who had a get vaccinated. >> sandra: he early on and said, "i got it and the antibodies." all of the information that we need to keep track of what the virus, that's a whole number thing. >> john: this emergent story about the origins that we are covering your on fox more than a year's ago. that's really intriguing. >> sandra: that was a fascinating interview will have more on that coming up. meanwhile, president biden arriving in cleveland to promote his economic vision for the country. his speech comes as the

white house is preparing for aid, wait for it, $6 trillion budget for levels not seen since world war ii. i was having a conversation with the u.s. senator who suggested that, "for republicans, they say that we are spending, spending, spending." it is a lot of zeros and a lot for the american people to keep track of. what is it me for them if we keep spending at this rate? >> we've already seen what it means for the average american as they go shopping for groceries, as they go filling up their tank of gas. inflation is spiking. levels are rising since we haven't seen in the late 1970s. we are spending money that we don't have. the $6 trillion budget we are going to hear about tomorrow from the president doubles our

annual budget meant. in one year we are doubling it. it's absolutely crazy. there was a lot of spending when the pandemic began under donald trump and it was a temporary shot in the arm was going to be withdrawn. he is talking about doubling our annual budget outlays a year after year. this is legacy spending. what happens is the fed prints money to buy up the debt because there's so much debt that the fed is helping out the government by buying it. printing out the money leads to inflation. that's why your price is at the groceries are so high, that's why your price at the gas pump is so high. >> sandra: larry summers said it's like leaving the drunks too long at the party. under the obama administration, on ftn administration. what's put this in perspective. inflation is a tax on every american family, he says.

putting more cash in the economy is resulting in more inflation. people need to understand that this is a spend now tax later administration. that's how were going to lead it through the recovery. >> clearly, they have every intention of spending all of this money. either the fed could raise interest rates and that could stall the economy so they don't want to do that. the biden administration doesn't want to do that or they buy up debt which causes inflation. since her spending money and the fed usually bends to the will of the president on these issues, we will see.

speak to the government is operating like 2010 and she is g for more spending. this is the latest fox news polling on these giant spending proposals being put out. when asked what these proposals are intended to do, more people said than not that the aim is to push liberal social policies rather than jump-start the economy. that's alarming that people are seeing through this and that this isn't money that's being spent to lead to the great american recovery after the pandemic. >> ironically, the great american recovery was happening as soon as we are taking the lock down. it wasn't as though we really needed all of the spending and of course a lot of the spending has nothing to do with restarting the economy which was restarting out some anyway. americans and businesses know how to make money. they know how to make things. the problem is that the government is getting in and

keeping millions of people at home. that's what we have 8.1 million unfilled jobs and that's why we can't keep producing as much as we would like to, simply because people are getting paid more by the government for staying at home. either way, americans haven't felt the real dyer urgency of inflation. that is why 50% of americans say it's about the money that the biden administration's spending. it's about right or not enough. >> sandra: going to pay for it in the future. i will put up on the screen larry summers about inflation and again, an economist under a democratic administration, used to head up harvard, says that the risk of the economy is overheating over inflation and policymakers need to accept economic reality. it has come past emergency policies for a country's

long-term future. that's a question, right? who is looking out three years from now, five years from now? what we see today question work the administration saying that this is going to lead to 2% growth over the next five years. that's it? >> that is going to put a damper on growth as well. that is going to raise it tremendously and that could put a stall in the economy. remember, the obama-biden administration had a stall in the economy so we've been here before. >> john: a phd in mathematics but i do know how to do a household budgets. in 2019, three and a half trillion dollars and a projected 3.542021. it doesn't take a phd to know those numbers don't add up.

>> sandra: and guess what all of the big bank ceos are predicting? we don't see a bubble yet but i don't know if you've looked around your hometown, housing prices are through the roof. david, i will see you tomorrow morning. >> i'm looking forward to that. >> john: always good to see you again. >> great interview by the way with david asher. >> john: we will have to get him back. he has a lot to say, there's no doubt about that. >> john: as the wuhan lab leaks cheery gains credibility, facebook reversing its policy oe post. joe concha raise in on the flip-flop coming up. >> sandra: i wonder if he's wearing flip-flops? crime rates raise across the country but what is the biden

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>> john: will wokeness ruin the democrats chances in the midterms and beyond? is it wokeness kryptonite for democrats? let's bring folks do mike fox news contributor joe conchas quoting a socialist at nyu who says that everyone hates except for democrats. with the d from police rather than open schools. crime is rising in kids welfare is falling. the left wing of the party is so easy for republicans to run against.

>> is becoming more and more prevailing at and we been sounding the alarm for months. there's been warning that this is kryptonite for democrats and you look at the polls here as far as cancel culture, a poll shows two-thirds, 60%, that there is growing cancel culture threatening their freedom. you see polls where adults, particularly conservative adults, are terrified to promote don't post anything political online because it may hurt that promotion, workplace, or in their career. this is something very real and as you know jon, it's not like republicans have to do heavy lifting to retire nancy pelosi's house speaker. they only need to flip a few seats. trump lost 43 seats in his mid

term so to flipped five or six, given all of this as well as wokeness connected directly to democrats, it's a big loss for them. >> john: the biggest law since world war ii was 26 seats. we are talk polls, some interesting information in fox news poll. 46% of respondents, not majority but a plurality of people, think that joe biden is too liberal. that's up a full ten points from december of 2019. the pull to the left, is beginning to resonate with voters across >> i love that number on the bottom. 15% believe he's too conservative. i'd love to go bowling with them. get a beer, onion rings, and ask where they got that idea. obviously we have a lot in spending and propose to spending

and now you have a commission to explore the possibility or when you have senator biden saying that his best speech or one of the best speech was not blowing up the filibuster and now you have them on the fence of blowing up the filibuster. now you see a record of the border that has has the highest crossing in 20 years looking lie disneyland on opening day. we have a president and vice president in charge not doing anything about it. he was a moderate, certainly, but always being seen as more and more liberal. he went to the center and balancing budgets, joe biden is going in the other direction and this could hurt him in 2024 if he decides to run again. >> john: i want to ask you about the latest of the coronavirus origin story.

this comes from facebook which says, "in light of reports into covid-19 and public health experts, we will no longer claim that covid-19 is man-made in our apps. we are working with experts." but they seem to care about last year it was politics. anything that came out of donald trump's mouth, even if it was true, the band from their websites. >> i'm having deja vu all over again. as far as hunter biden in october and now he's being under investigation for federal taxes. in october, facebook and twitter for that matter and social media in general felt that they had to suppress and censor those stories.

it's only after joe biden was in the oval office that they decided to go back the other way and say, "we made a mistake." donald trump is more distance from the white house and suddenly we are seeing changes in the narrative. >> john: always great to see you and thank you for joining us as afternoon. hope you have a great memorial day weekend. >> by the way, sandra. i read that comment before. >> sandra: did this sneakers match the tie? >> john: how do you do that? >> i purposely do that. i have shoes for every type. >> sandra: john is going to have to step up his game. >> john: nobody can keep up with frank and his sneakers. >> that's true. >> sandra: a marine, meanwhile, no fearing for his life after he said he tried to save people from the north korean regime.

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>> sandra: a u.s. marine veteran tells fox news that there is a danger to his life if he leaves the country. as president biden's

administration is pushing to extradite him to spain, christopher anh is charged withy spain by breaking into the embassy in madrid in 2018. reporting on this in in re city. >> i talked with christopher anh as he awaits a magistrate decision on whether he will have to pack his bags and be extradited just as kim jong un's regime has demanded. speech when he could find himself back in spain where he and a group of freedom fighterse into an embassy back in 2019. he says that's not true they were invited and it was in operation to help the north korean ambassador defect but he got cold feet. they say that he could be assassinated if he leaves this country by a kim jong un's hit

squads. they have operated, we have been told, and europe. they also fear that he could be taken to north korea for a show trial and be executed. >> that danger exponentially increases if i leave the country. the same department of justice that has told me that if i leave the country that i could be assassinated, is the same department of justice that is trying to extradite me. yes, the fear is there. >> federal judge is presiding and she says that there is a north korean threat on his life and she will likely announce her extradition decision. that expected in a few weeks. >> sandra: thank you for reporting on that. >> john: president biden, center, reversing course on whether covid-19 leak from a lab

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an idea that was dismissed as fringe but quickly gained credibility. >> john: that was a year too late for senator cotton. he was a first to suggest a link between the lab and wuhan. a theory that sparked mockery from the media. >> sandra: they said that he kept repeating a coronavirus theory that was already debunked. senator tom cotton is ready to go. he will respond to all of that in one minute. but first, to peter doocy who is alive at the white house. >> good afternoon and we just learned the way that present bite and found out that u.s. intelligence agencies, or at least one of them believed that the lab leak theory was possible with low or medium confidence. it was two months ago as a part of the regular presidential daily brief.

>> following that residential debrief, asked if we could declassify that and it came back as this week. speak out there 89 dave met days left in an intel pro stomach pr. it says that the u.n.'s intelligence said that we did not know where or how it was transmitted initially but there are two likely scenarios. either it emerged naturally through human contact with infected animals or it was a laboratory accident. the term laboratory accident is too charitable for some members of congress who are trying to connect the dots. >> think about it this way. we spent more assets with our intelligence agencies to find the origin of this than we have anything. a hiv anything. we still are not that much closer because they're doing everything to hide it. they would not be doing that if

it was an accident. >> if it was a leak or some sort of an accident, some republicans on capitol hill like a lindsey graham want president biden to try and sanction china or call for sanctions on china. i asked the white house yesterday what kind of punishment there might be and they don't want to ablate anything like that until after s 90 day process. >> sandra: that's a lot to take in. thank you. >> john: let's bring in republican arkansas senator tom cotton. as we pointed out at the top of this hour, you were one of those people who was dismissed as a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists prevent entertaining the idea that this thing emanated from a lab. i'm wondering, have you been sending recipes to your detractors on how to cook croaked? >> now, with most of port here is

getting down to what happen. it's too little, too late and it's only kicking the can down downthe road. it's exactly what they have found in 18 months. inconclusive evidence because china has been concealing the evidence and probably has destroyed a lot of it. that's why it's time to lower the boom on the chinese party and make them pay for what they've done to the united states into the world. >> sandra: hearing that doesn't sound like you think they will find a smoking gun. >> i don't. i don't think that china is ever going to open up the wuhan lab to american scientists or other scientists. i think it's been destroyed but you have to use your common sense. look at all of the evidence we already have plenty to those labs and say that there is a reason why china has been so secretive and so deceitful about this virus from the very beginning. they need to be held accountable

for what happened. >> john: when you look at this idea and you alluded to this a second ago senator, when you look at the direction that the president is taking 90 days to look into this, unless president biden were to really lean on xi jinping, do you think that they will find -- and you mentioned that china probably's got rid of a lot of this evidence. even if president biden leaned on china, would they be forthcoming with anything? >> no, they will not. this isn't anything new. the intelligence committee has been looking for evidence on the origin of this virus for 18 months. we can't find anything partly because china has concealed evidence and has probably destroyed evidence. that's why say this is too little, too late. he wants to get beyond bad news about the likely origins of this virus and he wants to kick the can down the road 90 days into the summer and hope that this all goes away. they are certainly not going to

find anything beyond what theyhave already found. that's why it's time to face the fact and impose punishment on china. >> sandra: investigation of the trump administration, he was talking about what he described to some very heavy stuff when he got in there. function techniques he referenced but he did ultimately say that he has confidence in the intelligence community to further explore and dig into this. he does say that he questions how much you will actually say about what they learn. where you fall in that? >> i have confidence in our intelligence community but they can only find so much when china is using the vast resources of the chinese state and chinese communist party to conceal his evidence which is exactly what they have been doing for 18 months. i'm on the intelligence committee and that they've done on this. they've done a lot of work to uncover the truth in a conclusive definitive form. there's a reason why we haven't been able to do that.

china has used this as one of the most critical state secrets for them to protect. that's why it it's time to start imposing penalties on china and seven kicking the can down the road like joe biden is done. we would want to come back to you in just a second here but we want to go to this. the governing body of the world health organization has concerns that there was details left out. >> when china announced at the world health assembly this week that it did not plan to cooperate with anymore investigations considering the virus, that triggered the biden administration to act yesterday. that according to official s at atthe white house, that's when president biden ordered that they report back to him in 90 days.

an infectious diseases professor from georgetown has turned served on the front lines in china since his form as 2003 and in africa. he flew to china at the beginning of the pan i'd stomach but he was too late as china had already closed wuhan lab. he says that the first cluster of cases made it back to 2019. >> who was not empowered or given the ability to do a proper investigation of the origin of the coronavirus. i think that should be done now. >> we've spoken to general mark

milley on his plane flying back from the air force academy. he says he still doesn't know where the coronavirus began. >> we've seen different evidence and you've heard the president. we want to get to the bottom it because what i said a year ago is still true today. we don't know. >> the editor of the south china morning post reported in march of 2020 that 266 people with sars coronavirus or covid-19 died between november and december 31st. all of this suggests that dots began happening in october and that's not in the w.h.o. report. >> john: back to senator john carton of arkansas. here's the difficult question. americans have died from covid

and that's more than world war i, world war ii, and the vietnam war. even if there's no smoking gun that china allow this to escape from the laboratory and covered it up, what should happen? >> at some to lower the boom on china for unleashing the supply the world and killing so many. we can revoke their status at the world bank in which they get special loans. we can open up federal courts so chinese communist officials can be sued in courts by the victims of the coronavirus just like we did for the 9/11 victims. there is no end of the penalties we can impose on the communist party for unleashing this plague on the world and it's time to start doing that. it is not time to kick the can down the road and ask this

community for 90 more days to do what they've artie been doing for 18 months. >> sandra: do feel that there is bipartisan push for that, senator? >> i do. john is not very popular in the united states. say that there is a whistle-blower that emerges from these labs or we get a trove of documents about this chinese communist party the way we did a year ago about the that they are committing, just imagine, imagine the righteous blowback the american people will feel towards the officials who are responsible for this plague. >> sandra: we are getting to another story. facebook is listing a ban on posts claiming that covid-19 was man-made. >> that afternoon and let's

start here. in a statement of fox news, a facebook spokesperson said that spirit "in light of investigations going into covid-19 with public health experts, we will no longer remove the claims that covid-19 was man-made from her apps." this came after facebook factors were accused of banning post. moving onto youtube. banning a post from georgia who is fighting the mass mandate for her children. in response to her inquiry about that post, youtube said this in part. we remove this video for the claim that children are not affected by covid-19. they triggered some other policies like harassment or hate. these companies, sandra, controlling some of the

messaging here. >> sandra: thank you for that. we will get back to the senator on that issue. flip-flopping. it doesn't surprise you? >> i can't say i'm terribly surprised. the pressure got multiple so great this week on facebook and these other companies. just 15 months ago when i was raising very reasonable questions about the origins of this virus and whether it excellently reached the mag leaked out of labs, companies le facebook had gone into overdrivo protect all of their liberal friends and maybe we would have got to this reckoning a year ago. that's why censorship is often so bad because it suppresses it very reasonable debate and it makes it harder to hear all of the arguments and all of the fact about public controversy. that is why we should oppose censorship at these giant big tech platforms just like we oppose it from governments. >> john: i know you said at the top of this segment that the more important thing than

watching your critics eat crow was to get to the bottom of what happened. there has to be a certain sense of i told you so and where were you a year ago and how you reverse course without pointing out to others at this thing might've come out of the lab? >> when you are a high-profile conservative, you just get used to the media making those false claims and misrepresentations. what really does matter is that we try as best we can to get to the bottom of the origin of the virus. but more importantly that we begin to impose penalties on china on what they have inflicted on america and inflicted on the world. >> sandra: what was really going on in your head senator when we lead dominic lead into you and read those headlines clearly attacking youn the virus back then.

>> i don't have any tinfoil of hats at home. i just have an army had that i put on every now and again. my critics are wrong with the stomach that again. >> john: thank you for your service to the nation. >> happy memorial day to all of the old star families out there. >> sandra: looking to stop a push on wokeness on our children all across the country. students were taught that make america great again meant a white supremacy. it is a story will only see right here on fox. >> john: plus, the biden administration putting out some right emendations on how to spend it covid money and he raises therapy for teachers? that is coming up, next use your va benefits to turn that equity

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>> sandra: moments away and outrage over this woke dominic wokeness after suggesting that white teachers go under anti-antiracist therapy. mike emanuel is that one of those schools live in bethesda, maryland, for us today. >> good afternoon. parents say that labeling people with conservative views as being racist is wrong. fox news had obtained documents from the montgomery county public school system about the $450,000 antiracist system audit and critical race theory classes. that includes a slide that says

make america great again as covert white supremacy. this could lead to lawsuits. >> we can fill a philosophical disagreements and disagreementst attacking america as it systematically racist but when you start targeting schoolchildren based on their race, you are going into very dangerous legal territory but i think is prohibited by law. >> they are responding in a written statement to fox to fox saying that we are having an investigation into the impact that critical race theory has on her students and the safe spaces to address these challenges and their impact on education. one concerned parent tells us that this curriculum sends the wrong message. >> it is racist in itself because it divides our kids into

tribes of the suppose that and victims and that hard work and s is bad and wrong. >> john: critics calling out the biden administration and its suggestions on how to spend covid money. antiracist therapies were white educators. let's bring in our panel. fox news contributor marie harf. this is the america rescue package. it's under the american education budget that schools can use this money again to provide free antiracist therapy for white educators and support staff.

marie, what is that and why should covid funds be paying for it? >> i saw that "new york post" story and i'm not familiar with all of the details of that exact piece of this release package, but broadly speaking, i know that the biden administration thinks it's important that educators have the tools they need to teach their students about history of racism which is history that they need to know about and also have tactics to help students puzzle through issues we still face in the country. i know there's a lot of scary talk out there about what it means when it comes to the school but it is absolutely appropriate for federal funds to be spent helping educators figure out how to teach your kids on really complicated issues like slavery, like redlining, and so that is something that is absolutely important to do for the students so they know the history and more importantly, how to make it

better going forward. >> john: this particular policy speaks to the idea of america being a systemically racist country. >> it is just division politics once again. you have students and teachers and parents who were just coming off of more than a year of virtual school. you have mental health statistics going up, more children performing under grade levels for reading and math, i know that we are finally getting back in school, you want to talk about giving teachers the tools they need? how about giving them the tools they need to get our kids back up to grade level? how about giving them the tools to give them emotional support? they've been in front of a computer screen for the last year. it is no wonder that you have support for school choice off of the charts because parents are saying we need another option. our schools are not prioritizing our children. they are prioritizing this woke culture and we need the parents

fight for the education that the children need. >> john: wokeness is kryptonite for the democrats and james carville said the following. "wokeness is the weakness of the democrat party and its hard for anybody to deny it." marie, is wokeness going to be a problem for the democratic party in 2022? >> he is a brilliant strategist and i tend to agree with him on most things. i do think it is clear that the g.o.p. wants to run this midterm election on cancel culture and cultural issues. not so much on specifics of health care policy or education or economic policy. >> john: but is it going to be a problem for the democrats? >> it depends on how you define wokeness. republicans are trying to define

it in a very scary way and democrats would say, "we are just talking about making our country equal for everyone and we are have work to do there." you will see pretty moderate candidates continue to run and win in those stooping districts. they're going to say we need to have honest conversation about racism in this country. we have two. >> john: such as republicans defining wokeness, its democrats defining wokeness. if you are james carville, very concerned that this could hurt you with the polls a year and a half from now. >> poll after poll public and private shows that this spans party lines and people think it's gone too far. to marie's point, may be moderate democrats are going to say that the isn't a thing. the people that are getting oxygen in the room are the woke ones and those are the ones that everyone's going to have to answer for because they are the

ones running the democrat party today. >> john: one thing is for sure, this is going to be a big topic of conversation. thank you for joining us. >> sandra: fox news alert, president biden is now speaking to a crowd there in cleveland. he is trying to pitch and sell his spending plan to a friendly crowd. we hear that they have been cheering on his proposal there in cleveland. we will continue to monitor this event and the president's remarks and bring you news format as it comes in. >> john: a shoot out on the streets of manhattan in the middle of the afternoon. what is going on in the big apple? a lab report coming up. >> sandra: and the justice department finally admitting to the crime surge that we have all seen with our own eyes. it will official step in and do something about it? lawrence jones is here to join as onset live.

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>> john: the white house refused to acknowledge it, but now president biden's own justin to justice department is going to fight what it has referred ts a rise in crime. it is being described as a wild west on the upside. shocking video in manhattan showing shoot out in the streets in broad daylight. lauren, what is going on there? >> your guess is as good as mine. the upper west side of manhattan has some of the most extensive real estate in the city. it is a little over $3,000 a month but one block error became more like the o.k. corral as two men have a shoot out. the two men using cars as cover and they exchanged around several times dodging between the parked vehicles.

police say two unknown male individuals confronted each other, produced firearms, and fired an unknown amount of shots at each other. thankfully, no one was injured. tuesday shoot-out is another example of the big apple's dramatic surge in crime. april's numbers show more than 30% increase and as the city begins to open up, the governor said it will be safe until the crime problem is addressed. >> of all of the things we have to do, talking to new york city specifically, crime, crime, crime are the top three. >> police are still asking the public to help them identify the shooters who will be charged with reckless endangerment. back to.

>> john: lauren green kristin wiig new york. >> sandra: attorney general merrick garland says that they will step up to fight this. thank you for your time and we know all week you are hosting 7:00 in the evening. >> good to be here in the studio with you. >> sandra: absolutely. thank you for stopping here first. it seems like there is now an acknowledgment from the federal government as crime spiked that we has a witness and felt. you spent so many days in 2028 touring this country. you saw it. >> it's interesting because i started to cover these cities where the violence is out of control. then you have the pandemic where people couldn't go back to work and that is always going to result in crime. people going out there to fend

for themselves or just be lawless because of nothing better to do. and then you have to defend the police movement that started to pour gasoline on a problem that was already there. you have these das that were inspired by george soros who said that no one should be behind bars. you're seeing the reflection not only in the polling but democrats really have to make a decision right now. are they going to be a pro, not necessarily police party, but a prologue party and making sure that people who are breaking the law are prosecuted to the fullest sense of the law. you could be for criminal justice reform and still want safe communities. but the fact that they are still allowing violent offenders on the street with no punishment shows you something about them. >> sandra: you look at the crime happening here in new york. murders are up 22% compared with the same time last year. the city and many other american cities going through a lot.

when it comes a confidence in our police, this is a huge issue considering what we have been through. this is the latest fox news polling on that issue. we will put it on the screen for you. trust and confidence in police and law enforcement. those with a great deal or a fair amount, 72%. lawrence, that has gone up substantially since the george floyd event of last year when gallup took that pole they saw support of police was the lowest in history at 48%. you are looking at a climb of 25%. are we seeing more support out for the police even though that movement made wave? >> i think you are seeing more support because people want some to stop the bleeding. the only people who can stop that is the police right now and that is where system works. the conversation was equal justice under the law and getting rid of the bad apples in police force. it turned to demonizing the

profession as a whole. it was a noble profession and this cup of the bad apple in the bunch. i did not have the opportunity to tour detroit. he supports his police and he rated his own narcotics unit when he saw there is bad actors involved. that's what the american people want. they don't want to generalization of an entire department. >> sandra: people want the police. they lead in some of the highest crime in the nation and people live in the middle of it. there's no support of defunding the police and i will put the toll up on the screen. compared to a year ago, they were asked is there more or less crime in this country? a whopping 73% say that they are

seeing and experiencing more crime across the country. in your local area, 54%. not a whole lot said that they are seeing less crime. >> uc and new york city people openly committing crime because they know that there is and can. we just got rid of the anti-crime unit and someone told me that they are debating on a new force. not getting the back on the street to stop violent crimes that are happening and that that tells you all that we need to know. we are working with imagery and all of the life and action not what is it going to take to keep citizens safe? >> sandra: we can see just about everywhere, fox nation included. a host by yours truly, lawrence jones. you've been on fire this week. >> a pleasure to be on the fox news channel. >> sandra: good to have you, lawrence appeared to be when we are honored to have been with us, no question about that.

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>> john: a summit in switzerland. that is what president biden is seeming to reward resident vladimir putin with after belarus, a russian proxy, hijacked a passenger jet on sunday. the dictator of belarus and his regime are abusing a blogger that they arrested and removed from that flight. former speechwriter for george w. bush and fox news contributor. by the time we get through your cv, we have barely enough time here. let's see where we've been with rush on the past few weeks. the pipeline, continuing aggression on ukraine, the thing with ryan eric, and now a summit is announced in geneva in the middle of june. is as rewarding bad behavior? >> yes, edits. there isn't an awful lot a president can do about a rogue foreign country that is as

powerful as russia. we don't have to reward them and do things that we don't have to do. it's just going to make moscow contemptuous of us. there's no reason to do this and also it is part of a long pattern of things that you talked about. remember when a group of russian backed militants in ukraine shot on a malaysian air jet? what happened then? really nothing. if you are vladimir putin, what would you conclude from this? especially joe biden rand as the anti-putin candidate. his whole party presented donald trump as a stooge and sometimes they claimed he was an agent of the russians. but what does this make joe biden? >> john: is president biden turning a blind eye? an op-ed said that mr. biden and

his people say that talking makes a world a safer place. what do you think? >> that was as true as ronald reagan stay as it is in ours. there was a famous office meeting when ronald reagan first became president. he was talking with judge clark and it may have been up private conversation but they were talking about what about making a deal with the soviet union and could we get this? i think he famously said to judge clark, "i have a different idea. we win, they lose." these are people that can't be talked outside of what they believe to be their own interest. what they're looking for is a do you mean what you say or can we get away with things if we push hard enough? that's a problem. the biden approach has taken the opposite of teddy roosevelt, speak softly and carry a big stick. so far it is speak loudly but have no stick. >> john: the biden

administration seems to have taken one hard line with russia. reporting in the last few minutes that biden will not rejoin the open skies accord. we got out of it last year because of russian violations. quick thoughts on that before we go? >> that's probably a good thing but in the cases of both russia and china, we need a comprehensive policy that recognizes these are aggressor nations and they are going to respond to weakness with more aggression. we have to have a comprehensive strategy to address them on all fronts. >> john: that something to look forward to in the middle of june. geneva. president biden and president putin. we will see what comes with it. thank you for coming in. speech or speaking of biden, he wants to go back on electric vehicles. but it looks like officials are looking abroad to build them.

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>> president biden plans to import raw materials for his electric vehicle push rather than mine them here in the u.s. while the climate adviser says there won't be any american mining, business leaders say it's caving to environmental groups while leaving american jobs on the table. ryan fist, thanks for being here today. what is your message as you learn the biden administration's plans to produce all of these electric vehicles? >> well, it's extremely concerning, sandra. right now we have two different projects that are trying to get into production. the closest one is one out of minnesota. if that were to be in

production, it would be minnesota's first copper nickel mine and could play a huge rule for a renewable energy technology future. as of this week, the president said that minnesota should play a critical role in supplying the metals needed. it's concerning. we can play the same role as well down the road. >> sandra: i'll ask you more about what that means for your community. a tweet from john barrasso on the screen. he's making the case against joe biden's plans. if so saying if biden is bowing to pressure from environmental activists and abandoning american workers, producing critical minerals here in the u.s. will create thousands of jobs. during her nomination hear, the u.s. secretary of energy said she wanted to work with congress

to create a supply chain of minerals here in the united states. now they want to make america reliant on other nations. so were you led to believe that the plan was to source these materials here at home? >> yeah. i mean, according to a reuters report last october, within biden's inner circle, he supported that. we could play a huge role in that. we have 34% of the u.s. copper reserves. 95% of the nickel reserves and 85% of the cobalt reserves. we could supply the metals needed for the future and our defense as well. these are great jobs. i mean, the average minnesota mining wage pays in excess of $90,000 a year. across the nation, $75,000 a year. it's not something to joke about our teeter totter around.

we have the best environmental standards in the world. you know, we have very skilled men and women in the building trades that endorse joe biden. they need his help. one thing that needs to be said, too, that governor tim walsh needs to show support. he needs to get his butt on a plane to see president biden and show his support for these projects and stand up for the men and women that endorsed him. >> sandra: as this becomes a bigger and bigger story and the push to go electric, it will mean a lot for communities like yours. we'll follow up. >> thanks. >> john: mike dunleavy making that case. after spending a year trapped inside, americans are looking to the great outdoors. now camp grounds are preparing for what could be the busiest season ever. grady trimble live in union, illinois with the latest.

>> 18 million families will camp this memorial day weekend alone. this campground where we are will be 100% booked. sylvia webber is the owner. you're not expecting it to be full this weekend but pretty much all summer long. >> we're very grateful for that. seems to be taking off again. people want to go camping in the outdoors. what is exciting, too, there's many new campers. >> yeah, a lot of new people that could stay in the more upscale cabins if they don't want the tent experience. you said you see people working out of their rvs. >> yeah. this is the other thing. many people work in their rvs. they're not just here for relaxation but they bring their work, work from home. their home away from home. >> so you don't have to take vacation time if you can work from your rv or a glamping cabin

like this. >> john: thanks, grady. thanks for joining us. have a good memorial weekend, by the way. you too, sandra. have a good memorial day. i'll be off a couple days. remember those that died in service of this country. thank a veteran when you see them. >> sandra: absolutely. great message. enjoy your weekend, john. i'm sandra smith. i'll see you tomorrow. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" starts right now. >> martha: good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum in new york right now on the "the story." president biden pushing this newest round, a $2 trillion spending bill on infrastructure as they call it. so he's taking a dig at republicans moments ago over their refusal to get on board with this plan. watch. >> even my republican friends in congress, not a single one of them voted for the rescue plan. i'm not going to embarrass any one of them but i have here a list.